Symposium SECC - New hard disk issue!

[jonttaylor]

Hi all,.

Have been asked to replace the noisy disk in our Symposium for 2 reasons:
1.) Old disk is gtting noisy
2.) Not enough room on the C: partition for our antivirus software

Existing disk has 6 partitions, 1 Primary (4gb) and 5 other logical (each one also 4gb)

Our system maintenance engineer told me not to change the partition sizes, does anyone know whether this applies to all partitions or just to the logical Application + Database partitions?

 

[johnpoole]

all partions.. what in the world are you archiving that fills us your c:? i would move most of that to a thumb prior to replacing the drive. nortel in it nonrelenting wisdom will not operate if you change partition sizes. you can change those on an upgrade or a new install only.

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[Wane47]

if you want to change drive size you need to do a platform migration to change disk size. If you are going to ghost the existing drive and replace with same size, you need to run shutdown on symposium sevices before ghosting same thing if doing a full windows backup. Don't throw old drive away until you have everything working.

 

[jonttaylor]

Thanks for the replies guys,...not ignoring your advice or anything John but the existing disk got very noisy last night, I got a bit panicked.. so took a ghost image, partitioned a same sized disk with exact sizes(except Cthen imaged one partition at a time.
It appears to be running fine now - just one small niggle, the realtime displays wont work,. yet they do from a client machine we have.